Mental Health

Mental health

Whether it’s being spat on by angry bus passengers, accused of stealing by an Alzheimer’s patient or simply ignored by your fellow office drones, psychological damage at work is getting more attention from both researchers and rule-makers. Traditionally, B.C.’s resource-based economy created physical rather than mental threats on the job: loggers crushed by falling trees or commercial fishermen lost to drowning. Tougher safety standards in past decades make it less likely you’ll be mangled or killed while earning a paycheque, but workplace experts say information- and service-based economies create their own mental health risks.